Secure Restore

Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to perform secure restore — scan machine data with antivirus software before restoring the machine to the production environment.

During secure restore, Veeam Backup & Replication mounts disks of the machine that you plan to restore to the mount server. On the mount server, Veeam Backup & Replication triggers an antivirus to scan files from the mounted disks. If during the scan the antivirus detects malware, Veeam Backup & Replication will either abort the restore process, or restore the machine or its disks with restrictions depending on secure restore settings.

Secure restore is available for the following restore operations:

Instant VM Recovery

Entire VM Restore

Virtual Disks Restore

Restore to Microsoft Azure

Restore to Amazon EC2

EC2 Instance Disks Export

To perform secure restore, you must enable the Scan the restored machine for malware prior to performing the recovery option at the Secure Restore step of the restore wizard.

Tip:

You can also scan machine data for malware regularly within a SureBackup job. For information on how to enable the malware scan for a SureBackup job, see the Settings step of the SureBackup job wizard.

Requirements and Limitations for Secure Restore

Before you perform secure restore, check the following prerequisites:

You can perform secure restore only for machines that run Microsoft Windows.

The antivirus software must be installed on the mount server and support the command line interface (CLI).